Examining Student Outcomes of the BUilding Infrastructure Leading to Diversity (BUILD) Initiative's Research Mentorship Practices

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Sesion 4
  In Roundtable Session: Pathways to and Through College

Abstract

The BUilding Infrastructure Leading to Diversity (BUILD) Initiative is a set of NIH-funded training programs that aims to attract and prepare undergraduate students from historically excluded backgrounds into biomedical research fields through innovative methods. We employ multiple methods to examine outcomes of undergraduate research mentoring models from 10 BUILD sites. Multiple case study data and survey data collected from the BUILD Initiative were used to examine how specific forms of support contribute to underrepresented students’ researcher self-efficacy and observable research behaviors (i.e. publishing a manuscript, presenting at a conference, etc.). Findings indicate that while each BUILD site provided various mentoring models, having multiple sources of support (peers, faculty, etc.) may be important for supporting students’ biomedical research career training.

Authors

• Krystle Cobian, University of California - Los Angeles

• Hector Vicente Ramos, University of California - Los Angeles